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CFCM Show and Tell: Making Change

Nadav Aharony focuses on close proximity communications. He points out that we have good tools to send information around the world, but few tools to send things locally. His project – Comm.unity – focuses on connecting devices to one another through ...

From ETHAN ZUCKERMAN, WorldChanging,  6 Nov 2009

Threatened Voices: An Interactive Map

The complements another map that Sami maintains on Global Voices Advocacy, the Access Denied Map. That map is an overview of government efforts to block online publishing platforms, like Blogger or YouTube. I continue to believe that censorship of ...

From ETHAN ZUCKERMAN, WorldChanging,  4 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Wordpress,  Twitter Inc

Hossein Derakhshan, Now Detained for Over a Year

In all these months, days, and hours, my family, my wife and I were hoping that in the arms of Islamic law and the mercy of the Islamic judiciary, Hosseinâs case will be dealt with in the way it deserves I’ve written about Hossein’s detention ...

From ETHAN ZUCKERMAN, WorldChanging,  3 Nov 2009

Related Topics: CBC

Will Allen and the Urban Farming Revolution

Will Allen is redefining farming. His farm is a set of greenhouses in a corner of Northwest Milwaukee, walking distance from the city’s largest housing project. His farm doesn’t just feed 10,000 local residents – it’s a source of jobs, of training in ...

From ETHAN ZUCKERMAN, WorldChanging,  26 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Will Allen,  Waste Management, Inc.

Neri Oxman: Design is Truly Alive

Ethan Zuckerman is blogging from Camden, Maine, at the wonderful Pop!Tech conference. Celebrated designer Neri Oxman wonders what is the origin of form? How do we invent form? Is it a preconcieved image of narrative? Intelligent design? Getting rid of ...

From ETHAN ZUCKERMAN, WorldChanging,  26 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Buckminster Fuller,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Esther Duflo: Experiments Against Poverty

Her Pop!Tech talk is titled “Creative experimentation and the fight against povery”. She tells us that her goal is to help us think through the impacts of innovation, specifically for the people living on less than a dollar a day, the 25 million ...

From ETHAN ZUCKERMAN, WorldChanging,  26 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Angelina Jolie,  Bono,  Franklin D. Roosevelt

Paul Van Zyl: Why America Needs a TRC

Ethan Zuckerman is blogging from Camden, Maine, at the wonderful Pop!Tech conference. Paul Van Zyl was an anti-apartheid organizer in South Africa. When Mandela became president, he became the executive secretary of the Truth and Reconciliation ...

From ETHAN ZUCKERMAN, WorldChanging,  26 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Dick Cheney,  Desmond Tutu,  Michael Ignatieff,  Barack Obama,  Federal Bureau of Investigation

Steve Barr: Outlaw Private School

I'm blogging from Camden, Maine, at the wonderful Pop!Tech conference. This year's a special treat. My wife, the lovely Velveteen Rabbi, and I are team-blogging, trading off posts. You can read her posts on her website, or just read all of ours on the ...

From ETHAN ZUCKERMAN, WorldChanging,  23 Oct 2009

Related Topics: TED,  Crips

Mapping Main Street

US politicians talk a lot about Main Street. But what does Main Street actually look like in contemporary America? That’s what Harvard PhD students Jesse Shapins and James Burns, and journalist Kara Oehler, along with public radio producer Ann ...

From ETHAN ZUCKERMAN, WorldChanging,  21 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Robert Frank,  Flickr,  Harvard University,  LaTour,  Subaru

Towards Hackable Architecture

My presentation at Applied Brilliance today was a quick version of my Innovation from Constraint talk, a talk that makes the argument that some of the best design ideas come from facing the constraints provided by material circumstance. Using a whole ...

From ETHAN ZUCKERMAN, WorldChanging,  16 Oct 2009

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